TwoKinds of People, One Kind Of Webcomic… “Unique”

I’ve seen a lot of webcomics in my time writing for this site. Reading through the archives of Lackadaisy Cats, Penny Arcade, Megatokyo, VGCats, and the like has given me a pretty good inkling of when the comic-like photons entering my eyeballs are good, and when they are really, really bad, and when they’re somewhere in between. Even with this healthy webcomic knowledge, an appreciation for the artistic creativity which is melded into each and every webcomic that permeates our vast, teeming Internets, there are still webcomics so… “unique” and “avant-garde” and “extra-special” that, in many cases, it is impossible to define, or even attempt to explain, the creator’s impulses.

TwoKinds is one of these webcomics. Now, this particular piece is made by an Asian man named Tom Fischbach, and, to commemorate his Asianness, his webcomic is all animu, all the time. For example, he has really child-looking twenty-four year old guys with no facial hair whatsoever, catgirls, wolf-girls, some human girls, and naturally the occasional awkward male nude scene for comic relief. (Also, to get a better idea of what Fischbach was thinking of when he drew that last nude panel, see here.) This is classic animu, and it fills me with pride to see an Asian man who lives in the United States use an Asian medium simply because he’s Asian, and Asian things are intrinsically cool. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside that makes me vibrate uncontrollably as I clench my fists and scream at my computer screen. Can you feel that feeling? Yes, it’s that same exact feeling you get when you see some random white dude wearing an Inuyasha T-shirt and eating pocky in your Computer Science class.

Impressively for a webcomic of this caliber, Fischbach’s catgirls and wolf-girls are not your average, run of the mill wolf-girls and catgirls. In fact, they are actual cats and wolves, making this animu especially unique. For example, you have Natani, who is actually a wolf that looks like a girl, and Flora, who is actually a tiger that looks like a girl, kind of. In fact, they even have animal-likeages; the animal-girls in this webcomic really only live into their twenties, just like real tigers and wolves. This makes the alluded-to sex scenes between the animal-girl and random animu white dude Trace Legacy especially unique and avant-garde, in the same exact way that Mr. Hands was unique and avant-garde. People who say having sex with animals is wrong just need to grow the fuck up.

But I digress. Whenever this comic isn’t smashing down barriers for anthropomorphic animal sex, it’s bringing to the fore real-life (and highly intelligent!) themes of racial tolerance. As Fischbach puts it, “I was inspired to write Twokinds after having experienced a lot of racial discrimination from kids at my school, who were predominently white.” As examples of the unique ways Fischbach’s comic tackles racism, all of its human characters are white, while its Keidran animal people are slaves regarded as “savages” and its Basitin weird-thing people are all fastidious creatures who are willing to make huge sacrifices for their nation and their superiors. As Fischbach puts it in his “About TwoKinds” section,

Basitins are a little-known race of bipedal, long-eared, brown-furred, sentient animals. Unlike the other two races, the Basitins live off the mainland on a distant island-continent. Due to their isolation, they are often forgotten by the other two races and left to their own devices. They are a warrior race, with a society solely consisting of solders. They behave in a hive-like manner, following orders of superiors without question. They are usually even-tempered and disciplined.

In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the Basitin probably eat raw fish and rice and pronounce things with “r” sounds as “l’s” and vice-versa and would probably even make highly reliable small cars and suicide-bomb the humans’ naval warships with their highly-powerful aircraft if any of these things existed. And the Keidran probably like watermelons and fried chicken, according to Fischbach anyway. This is the kind of subtle racial message being sent by TwoKinds. To add to this message, all of the Keidrans are moved about in slave-ships and have their villages destroyed by the “baka gaijin roundeye” humans.

Being the racially-sensitive, open-minded guy Fischbach is, he knows that black people who were slaves eventually grew to love their masters. This is why all the Keidran slaves he has in his comic love their masters, too.

“Her parents were killed and she was sold into slavery. Flora was lucky enough to be purchased by a friendly human family, who treated her more like a daughter then a slave. Thus, Flora recalls her days of slavery with an unusual fondness.” (Source: Characters page at 2kinds.com)

“Kathrin was selectively bred from several generations of Keidran slaves in order to be more physically appealing to humans. Ironically, despite being designed to be a sex slave, Kathrin is incredibly naive when it comes to sex. Eric gives her much more freedom than his other slaves, but she genuinely enjoys serving him.” (Source: Characters page at 2kinds.com)

Clearly, Tom Fischbach knows a lot about slavery.

Of course, webcomics are supposed to be fun, and Fischbach makes certain that, if you love gender-changing, tranforming, anthropomorphic animals, you’ll love TwoKinds. Two of his main characters are transsexuals. Most of the animal characters are female, and they’re almost always naked (and they love being naked, and they talk about how absolutely naked they are, all the time!) How truly wonderful it is for Fischbach’s animals to be naked and free, and to have the ability to talk to, and have sex with, humans.

You can tell Fischbach and his fans are happy about this too. Because, after you’re finished with reading TwoKinds, you can get a DeviantArt account and check out his absolutely stunning characters in erotic poses! I’ve listed just a few below:

Clearly, Fischbach knows sex. And so does his cat, whose name is, I’m guessing, Flora. And, as you might expect, he has a huge fanbase that just loves his deviant art and furry comic. The critics rave!

“graphically stunning! story seems a tad slow but that might come from reading 1 page a week tops.” –robinmdh

“YIFF IN HELL FURFAGS” –xsutures

“That was quite possibly the most moronic thing anyone has ever said XSutures. Anyway, it’s a great comic, I really recommend you read it.” –darwin2k

“I thought there was only one sex scene. . . and it only lasted 1 or 2 panels. You can not compare Two Kinds to porn, that is simply ridiculous. By the way, just because it has furries in it does not make it horrible, to be honest, I f**king hate furries. Not the animated ones, but the human obsessed creeps who think it’s a life-style.” –Neoscryer

“I have never seen a single furry comic with this much sex in it. This literally has more sex, more nudity, more sex scenes, more suggestive dialogue, and more transgender/transspecies/anthropomorphic bestiality porn than any other non-pornographic furry comic I have ever seen. It is a furry comic, it is a terrible animu comic, and it sucks.” –LuigiM

Just look at who likes it!

So, as you can see, there’s no reason not to like TwoKinds. It’s the most avant-garde webcomic on the Internet! I’ve never seen a comic with plotline and writing and sexuality of this caliber with such wonderful art. So check out TwoKinds today!

26 Responses to “TwoKinds of People, One Kind Of Webcomic… “Unique””

Apparently, there are still people reading this blog from the 2kinds forums. Since my server logs are still humming, I’m including a link here to the forum discussion for whoever is interested in reading it. ED assholes, please don’t take this as an opportunity to troll. I’m including this because I think that anything you’re willing to share on a forum is something you should be willing to share with everybody, just as I’ve let everybody read this. http://2kinds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7516&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

so baisically [sic] an anti-furry anti-anime guy, with limited experience in comics, does a review on 2kinds, and takes HOURS in order to bash it and make racial jokes?
for teh lulz amirite?

Hahaha. Anti-furry? You haven’t been paying attention, have you? Let me make this clearer for you. Look at this post.

I wish Tom Fischbach the best, considering that his dad just died. Seriously, my dad died when I was eight, it sucks. I also think it’s hilarious that he basically spited me by drawing his latest DeviantArt compilation, entitled “Party Animals.” Whenever a guy on the Internet guesses you’re screwing your own cat in the ass, the intelligent thing to do is draw a picture of the lead character petting his love interest (who is now a full-on tiger), saying “FeralKinds: Now with 200% more bestiality.”

Since I’m on the topic: Nobody has yet figured out why TwoKinds sucks. It has to do with sexy + prude. The answer involves Fred Gallagher, and it’s why I make fun of Fischbach but leave out Ozy and Millie and let’s not forget that I leave out Bloch’s porno.

[…] are unsatisfactory at best. (P.S. TwoKinds fans, yes I am that mean “Luigiian” asshole that wrote a parody review of your comic last time. Just so you know: I’m serious this time. Don’t bother reading, I don’t have much you’d like to […]

A great parody review and a great handling of the crowd. Fuck, that Solomon has truly touched our lives, huh?

But well, when dozens of raving fans can’t really figure out what is serious and what is not, and some write book-sized mean comments because of some twisted logic, what could one expect?

Just that TwoKinds fans don’t tune to The Daily Show, or they might think it’s an actual news program. Then they’ll be spending their lives out protesting on the lies and racism of that awful news anchor from the Comedy Central channel. But well, who can see those connections?

it appears that there is a few people who have never read or even looked at the art of Tom and presumptuously assume that he is a bad person or that i is full of porn! clearly if you have read the comic there is a few suggestive scenes that are there to fulfil a purpose…people have to start “manning the fuck up”

Having read Twokinds all the way through, I don’t totally agree with your opinions (However entitled you are to them), but you aren’t far off on some aspects of the comic.
I didn’t post to cram some raving, detrimental thoughts or either Twokinds or your review, but rather to “throw my hat into the ring”.
As I mentioned before, I have read through the webcomic. When I found it off of a comedic webcomic’s website, I thought it was an innocent love story, or something along those lines. It never did deviate from that principle, but there were, to put softly, some strong overtones of explicit material. But I figure this is natural many comics of its genre , usually a ploy to attract the reader’s attention.
Honestly I could give a fuck about anyone orientating the content towards it being a “furry” or anything along those lines.
As for the dominant thought of the author being a racist, call me naive, but I honestly never saw any of that in Twokinds. Now, when I think about it, yeah, there is a lot of content that can be attributed to this world. BUT, after doing a bit of research, I found out that Tom drew “inspiration” from how he was discriminated against during his childhood (Being Asian in the U.S).
Had anyone considered that perchance, if indeed he did mean to reflect racist aspects, he did so to show his experiences as a child? In the comic, the humans are, for the most part, hate-filled towards the other species, especially towards the Keidran, mostly of poor reason . Maybe this is meant to tell of how he was subjugated to hatred by others when he had done them no wrong.
Wait! before anyone musters up some witty, jaundicial response to mine, let it be known that this is just an input to possibly help create some understanding of why Tom wrote what he did. These are not “the case”, only opinions.
I’m not some advocate put in defense of Tom. In fact, I did often question his true incentives through the characters actions. Clearly the writings of someone who has yet to know sex first hand, and expresses his desires through art.
But that is quite essentially the purpose of art, to find what is felt inwards and express it outwards. I just don’t think it is fair to crush someones efforts, whatever styles and stories they choose to impose, without viewing everything from both sides